 | John Wesley - 1782 - 728 pages
...would prefer flying to walking, yet yet who can fay he ever wills it ? Volition, it is plain, is an aft of the Mind, knowingly exerting that dominion it takes itfelf to have over any part of man, by employing it in, or with-holuing it from any particular aftion. And what is the Will, but the... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1788 - 508 pages
...accurately, than fome very ingenious authors who wrote after him. He defines volition to be, " An act of the mind knowingly " exerting that dominion it...or with-holding it from any " particular action." It may more briefly be defined, The determination of the mind to do, or not to do fomething which we... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1788 - 518 pages
...accurately, than fome very ingenious authors who wrote after him. He defines volition to be, " An ad of the mind knowingly " exerting that dominion it...employing it in, or with-holding it from any " particular adion." It may more briefly be defined, The determination of the mind to do, or not to do fomething... | |
 | 1795 - 690 pages
...P. defines to be ' that inclination in which the mind knowingly exerts that dominion it apprehendeth itfelf to have, over any part of the man, by employing it in, or withholding it from, fome immediate aflion.' To the exiftenceof volition, he obferves, underftandii\g and emotion are eflentially... | |
 | John Locke - 1796 - 556 pages
...would prefer flying to xvalking, yet who can fay he ever wills it? Volition, it is plain, is an act of the mind knowingly exerting that dominion it takes...in, or with-holding it from, any particular action. And what is the will, but the faculty to do this? And is that faculty any thing more in effect than... | |
 | John Locke - 1801 - 340 pages
...man would prefer flying to walking, yet who can fay he ever wilt it? Volition, ir is plain, is an act of the mind knowingly exerting that dominion it takes...in or withholding it from any particular .action. And what is the will but the faculty to do this ? And is that faculty any thing more in effect than... | |
 | John Locke - 1801 - 950 pages
...would prefer flying to walking, yet who can fay he ever ivillt it f Volition, it is plain, is an aft of the mind knowingly exerting that dominion it takes...itfelf to have over any part of .the man, by employing if in or v ithholding it from any particular aftion. And what is the •ufili but the faculty to do... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1802 - 610 pages
...moving the body is fufpended ? In the very accurate phrafeology of Mr. Locke, " volition is an adl of the mind, " knowingly exerting that dominion it..." over any part of the man, by employing it in, or with" holding it from, any particular a£tion." This act; of the mind, Dr. Darwin exprefies by the... | |
 | Philip Doddridge - 1803 - 624 pages
...volitions; which LOCKE defines to be the act of the mind knowingly exerting that dominion it takes itself to have over any part of the man, by employing it in, or with-holding it from any particular action : but what that exerting its dominion is, can only be known by consciousness. 6 J. a KCKE'I FJB. I.... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1803 - 676 pages
...is plain, fays Mr LOCKE, is an act " of the mind, knowingly exerting that domi" niori " nion which it takes itfelf to have over any " part of the man, by employing it in, or with" holding it from any particular action." Every volition therefore implies a conviction of power... | |
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Volition, it is plain, is an act of the mind knowingly exerting that dominion it takes itself to have over any part of the man, by employing it in, or withholding it from, any particular action. 
